“Time To Shine” is an annual conference for female immigrants who are either working as a professional in the Bay Area or planning to return to the workforce after a hiatus. We recognize the challenges encountered by them in tapping significant resources. We aim to provide an opportunity for those women to share their challenges in continuing career aspirations and expand their professional network. We believe we can grow together and go even further by supporting each other’s dreams and goals.
Time To Shine is co-hosted by Simple Steps and W Group of Bay Area K Group.
Simple Steps is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2017 in the San Francisco Bay Area with a mission to empower immigrant women by helping them rebuild their careers after a hiatus. Simple Steps hopes to build a stronger and more engaged community for immigrant women pursuing their career aspirations.
Bay Area K Group W-Group is a group of professional women working in the tech industry with 400+ members. We are engineers, researchers, UI/UX designers, product managers, and marketers who motivate and inspire one another through sharing and caring.
We live in one of the most competitive environment and often forget how to have a true conversation with others. YongSil will talk about why empathy is one of the most critical skill sets for our future self and how we can develop it.
Speaker
YongSil Jeong, KBS Announcer ("공감의 언어" 저자)
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch and Networking
1:00 - 2:00
Dare to Change
Keynote
To what extent can disadvantages be advantageous? Sue Kim will discuss how a potential weakness can give us strength with our courage and adoption to change.
Speaker
Sue Kim, Marketing Director @ OSRAM
2:00 - 3:00
How to Break into UX Design
Panel
So, you want to land a career in UX design, but you don’t know where to start…? In this panel session, three designers with various experience and background will talk about how to become a UX designer, what to do at work and how to grow a design career to the next level. They will share lots of know-how and tips for building a portfolio and job interviews. This session is mainly for those who want to become a UX designer with or without design background, but we also welcome junior or mid-level designers who are seeking the next level.
Panelist
Jen Jiun Choi, UX Designer @ Waymo Hyejin Eva Kim, Staff Product Designer @ Atlassian Ashley Rho, Senior Product Designer @ Intuit
This panel session aims to showcase diverse paths of restarting a career and/or making a career change after a break. Eunjung has self-taught mobile application development and been building her portfolio while she was preparing for job searching. Winnie joined the Path Forward's returnship program after an 8-year break and successfully extended her stay at the company where she did her returnship. Sunah graduated from the Hackbright Academy's Software Engineering Program and made a significant career change from finance to engineering. Each of the three panelists will share her journey since moving to the US. Their stories will provide with different possibilities, especially for those who are planning to return to the workforce.
Doyeon Kim, Founder & Executive Director @ Simple Steps
4:00 - 5:00
BREAKING Into Beauty & Fashion
Panel
Is career in beauty and fashion as fun, exciting, and glamourous as it sounds? What are both hard and soft skills needed to succeed in this industry? Are there essential things one must understand before breaking into the industry? Distinguished panelists will share their experiences and insights working in/with beauty/fashion luxury brands.
Panelist
BoYoung Lee, Head of Google Hardware Global Retail Creative @ Google Jinah Oh, Director of Fashion @ AAU Kyung Yoon, CEO @ Talent Age Associates Yoon Sung Choi, VP of Brand Development @ Memebox
Moderator
Claire Chang, Founder & Managing Director @ igniteXL
5:00 - 5:30
Closing
*This event is conducted in Korean. Only 'BREAKING Into Beauty & Fashion' session is in English.
YongSil is an anchor at KBS and has been hosting numerous TV and Radio shows as well as publishing books. When she is not hosting the shows, she gives a talk about how to communicate with empathy.
약력: '무엇이든 물어보세요'(정보 프로그램) 진행 미래의 여성 지도자상 (여성신문 주최) KBS 첫 여성협회장 서울문화재단 '책 읽는 서울' 운영위원 여성 가족부지정 대표 멘토 , 베스트멘토링상 명사 인터뷰 프로그램 '한국 한국인' 진행 '추적 60분' 진행
Sue Kim is a seasoned marketing communications executive with 25+ years of experiences in Silicon Valley and Korea. She is currently director of marketing at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. Prior to OSRAM, Sue held a global marketing position at Marvell Semiconductors and Integrated Device Technology (IDT).
Previously, Sue had various positions at the Hoffman Agency, global high-tech PR firm and worked with leading tech companies including Google, Dell, Plantronics and etc. In her earlier career, she co-founded the marketing & public relations agency and became the first-ever high-tech PR professional in Korea.
In her spare time, she enjoys making pottery and learning new things from books and travel.
Jiwon is CEO & Co-founder of YesPlz (https://yesplz.ai), the next gen visual search for eCommerce. Jiwon’s experience working as a product manager for Samsung and Sony Music inspired her to create a recommendation engine that connects the online marketplace.
When she is not working or talking to users, she likes to go to parks to take a nap.
Jen Jiun Choi is a multi-disciplinary experience designer in Silicon Valley currently working as an interaction designer at Waymo (Google self-driving car). At Waymo, Jen takes a human-centered approach to designing the world’s first driverless ride-hailing service. She previously was at Google for social pivoting towards to enterprise. Prior to Google Jen was at a digital exhibition design studio called Local Projects in New York City where she designed for museums and cultural institutions such as September 11 Memorial Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art and Cooper Hewitt Design Museum to name a few.
She received her BFA in Design & Technology from Parsons the NewSchool for Design. Her work has received numerous awards and recognition including from IXDA, D&AD, AIGA, MUSE and NDA.
Hyejin Eva Kim is a designer for enterprise software currently working at Atlassian which is best known for its collaboration tools, Jira and Confluence.
After finishing a master's program in design, she started her career at Salesforce tackling complex problems in platform space. Then Eva moved to Box where she took charge of the entire admin features and their user experience.
While her career was growing fast, she reached a point where she wanted to gain a broader perspective of the world outside of the UX domain. So she decided to take a break and spent 3.5 years following various personal passions, from growing vegetables to founding a startup. She is now back to the design world as a senior designer and a more mature human being.
Ashley has been working at Fintech industry since 2010. She had designed online lending platforms and credit monitoring tools for nine years and now she is designing for the small business industry since last March at Intuit.
For side projects, she enjoys organizing creative design events to exchange inspirations and positive influences.
Kiae is a product designer and co-founder of 42shift, a cross-border commerce tech startup. Before moving to the U.S., she worked as UX designer and UX researcher for global companies in Korea, UK and Germany.
Eunjung worked as an interaction designer and user researcher in Korea before she took a career break to focus on caregiving of her two children. When she was ready to return, she job-searched for 1 year and landed a UX design job at Knowre, education technology company, where she now works full-time.
Winnie Jungyeon Choi is a Financial Analyst at DataStax. She is in Company Metrics and Strategic Analytics team within Finance. Before joining DataStax, she had experiences with Sales Operations focused on Supply Chain Management and ERP system implementation. She enjoys learning new technologies, reading books and articles related to time management, motivating people, and self-development.
Sunah is a software engineer with a unique background in corporate finance. After spending 6 years at Samsung's HQ as a corporate finance manager, she decided to start a new adventure as a software engineer in SF. Upon completing Hackbright's full-time software engineering Bootcamp program last year, she's worked on complex data engineering projects at Udemy.
In her spare time, she enjoys gardening and swimming.
Doyeon is a founder and executive director of Simple Steps. Since 2017, Simple Steps has grown up to a community of 650+ people and worked with 20+ startup companies and community organizations.
Before starting Simple Steps, Doyeon has been working in several nonprofit organizations, including the Foundation for the UN Global Compact. She is also a co-founder of JUMP, a nonprofit committed to reducing the educational gap through tutoring and mentoring for youth from multicultural and underserved backgrounds.
Yoon Sung Choi is the VP of Brand Development at Memebox, which is a fast-growing beauty company combining beauty and tech. Memebox is Y Combinator-backed beauty startup and owns customer-centric indie brand portfolios for global consumers.
Yoon joined the company in Sep 2017 and co-developed ‘Kaja’ (pronounced "kah-jah", meaning "let's go" in Korean) with Sephora launched in fall 2018. Created for the girl on-the-go, Kaja provides bite-sized, covetable beauty products powered by the latest Korean technology and formulations. Kaja is the latest brand to join Memebox's established portfolio of K-Beauty brands, including K-beauty skincare brands, I Dew Care for Ulta in the US. Yoon oversees brand & product developments and new product strategy with key retailer partnerships.
Before joining Memebox, she was Senior Director of Product Innovation at Benefit Cosmetics Headquarters in San Francisco. She led Benefit’s global product strategy, product development, and product storytelling over 7 years. Yoon directed the entire product innovation team crossing categories and created new innovations targeting more than 30 countries with $1.5 billion annual sales. She is a creator of top-selling awarded products such as Roller Lash, They’re Real Eyeliner and Bad Gal Bang Mascara.
Yoon has over 18 years of global experiences in developing, launching, and marketing in beauty brand & products across the globe.
BoYoung Lee
Head of Google Hardware Global Retail Creative @ Google
Boyoung worked as a creative lead for Nylon, Theory, Limited Design Services. During this time, she was honored with Young Guns 3, creative professionals under 30 by the Art Directors Club. At L'Oréal USA, she built creative teams and envisioned brand stories for Kiehl's since 1851, Giorgio Armani Beauty and Shu Uemura. As a head of Brand Strategy and Integration at Shinsegae Group, she built the company's first multidisciplinary creative & brand strategy team. Under her direction, Shinsegae was repositioned as the top luxury lifestyle leader for fashion, beauty, and food. The resulting one-of-a-kind retail experience.
As a head of Creative at Sephora, Boyoung built an omnichannel organization of over ninety creatives. Her successful brand overhaul repositioned Sephora as an inclusive, diverse community, champions of the idea that: "Beauty is yours to define and ours to celebrate." Along with generating market-defying revenue, the strategy put Sephora on FastCompany's top 50 list of World's Most Innovative Companies and garnered the Glossy's Best Campaign of the Year.
Recently Boyoung joined Google as a head of Global Retail Creative overseeing omnichannel retail expression and story for Google Hardware.
Jinah Oh
Director of Fashion | Business @ Academy of Art University
Jinah is a Director of Fashion – Merchandising, Marketing, Product Development and Visual Merchandising managing all business focused fashion programs at the Academy of Art University. Jinah is also a venture partner at ignitexl and working with a number of startups in various capacities. Jinah chaired at the Savannah College of Art and Design and worked for several international luxury and fashion brands in Asia including Cartier and ESCADA.
Kyung H. Yoon is CEO and Founder of Talent Age Associates LLC, an Independent Board Director and former Vice-Chair of Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc (NASDAQ: HSII). Her deep corporate governance and strategic advisory experience allows her to bring a unique view to support management teams going through technology driven transformations. She is a current board director of the global fashion group MCM Worldwide, board director of SVDX, a senior advisor of Diversified Search, a strategic talent advisor for Hyundai Motor Group (OTC: HYMTF) and an advisory board member of Translink Capital, Global Female Leaders Berlin and a member of Women Corporate Directors (WCD).
For over twenty years, Kyung has worked closely with major venture capital firms, multinational companies and entrepreneurial CEOs to build leadership teams and to create winning talent strategies in the technology, AI, fashion, consumer, lifestyle, automotive and financial industries. As CEO of Talent Age Associates, Kyung brings creativity, global vision and innovative, value-added solutions to her boards and clients around the world who are facing disruptions from technology transformations, globalization and Asian cross-border economies
Claire is Founder and Managing Director of igniteXL, a Silicon Valley-based global seed fund investing in and igniting kickass entrepreneurs at the intersection of technology, beauty, and global innovation. Since 2014, igniteXL has worked with over 200 entrepreneurs and most recently launched its first beautytech acceleration program in partnership with Draper University to work with most promising beautytech startups in beauty, fashion, and wellness from all around the world.